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Who is Tammy Duckworth? / Facts

She previously served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs from April 24, 2009, to June 30, 2011, and as the Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs from November 21, 2006, to February 8, 2009

On November 8, 2016, Duckworth defeated incumbent Senator Mark Kirk for his seat in the United States Senate in the 2016 election

Duckworth is the first Asian American woman elected to Congress in Illinois, the first disabled woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives, and the first member of Congress born in Thailand

Her father, an American, and her Thai-Chinese mother were working and living there at the time

An Iraq War veteran, Duckworth served as a US Army helicopter pilot and suffered severe combat wounds, losing both of her legs and damaging her right arm

She was the first female double amputee from the war

Having received a medical waiver, she continued to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran, until her retirement from the Army in October 2014